Art screen



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M. s. MASTRUKOFF ART SCREEN Filed Oct. 16, 1925 M/Cl/AEL S. MASTRUKOFFINVENTOR By QM Mmw A TTORNEY Patented Dec. 7, 1926. V

PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL S. MASTB'UKOFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ART SCREEN.

Application filed October 16, 1925. Serial No. 62,918.

My invention relates to art screens and has a particular reference toportable sieves adapted to be used with brushes for spraying paint oversurfaces to be painted.

The object of my invention is to provide a portable art screen of aconvenient shape and adapted to maintain the working surface of thescreen or mesh cloth under tension.

My invention is more fully described in the accompanying specificationand drawing in which- Fig. 1 is a plan view of my portable screen, Fi 2is a partial section on a larger scale, and Fig. 3 is a sectional viewof a modified construction.

My art screen consists of a frame 1, preferably of an elongated or ovalshape. At one end of the frame its sides are bent out and extendedforming a handle 2.

A piece of metal cloth 3 is placed with its edges in the slots 4 in theframe 1. These slots may be formed by bending the frame from a strip ofmetal so as to leave a space between the edges of the strip, as shown inFig. 2. The frame is formed so that the slots made as stated are facingthe inside of the frame. The edges of the wire cloth 3 are bent over,forming loops 5, and placed inside of the frame slots 4, as shown inFig. 2.

A heavy spring wire 6 is then forced between the edges of the slots 4,clamping the folded edges 5 of the wire cloth 3.

In order to keep the cloth 3 stretched, the sides of the frame 1 aredrawn together, until the edges 7 touch each other, and the wire clothis clamped in this position with the spring wire 6. The resiliency ofthe frame and of the spring wire 3 will tend to force the sides of theframe apart, thereby keeping the cloth 3 under tension.

A modified arrangement is shown in Fig. 3. In this case the slot f isplaced at right angle with the face of the frame 1, so that the cloth 3makes a sharp bend around the inner edge of the sides of the slot 4.

The frame is preferably made of a metal strip stamped or bent into theproper shape. It may be made, however, from any suitable material whichmust be strong and resilient.

The cloth is preferably woven from metal wires, forming a screen.Instead. of the New York and State of New York, this wire any othersuitable material may be used, provided it is waterproof andsufficiently strong to resist the wear caused by the rubbing with apaint brush.

The operation of this device is as follows: The screen is held in lefthand at a certain distance from the surface which it is desired topaint; then a stiff brush is dipped in a water solution of some paint,and rubbed against the surface of the wire cloth. The paint will be thensprayed finely over the surface, until the desired shade of the coloringis obtained. The screen should be held horizontally and parallel to thesurface of the paper. The brush should be quickiy drawn across thesurface of the screen. The resiliency of the brush bristles will causethe paint from the brush to be thrown on the paper in the form of smalldroplets. A more or less deep shade may be obtained on the paper (or anyother ob ject) in this manner.

I claim as my invention:

1. In an art screen, the combination with a rigid frame formed of ametal strip, the sides of said strip being bent together forming atubular shape with an open slot, a wire cloth placed with its edges insaid slot, and a spring member placed in said slot over the edges ofsaid wire cloth.

2. In an art screen, the combination with a frame made of resilientmaterial, the sides of said frame at one end extending so as to form ahandle, a wire cloth in said frame, and means to clamp said cloth insaid frame when the sides of said frame are resiliently drawn together,said frame being made of a round tubular material of a shape adapted toresist fiexure in a direction perpendicular to the plane of said frame.

3. In an art screen, the combination with a frame of a wire cloth insaid frame, means to clamp the ends of said wire cloth in said frame,means to keep said cloth stretched tightly in said frame, said framebeing of a substantially ieavy section in a direction perpendicular tothe plane of said cloth and adapted to resist fiexure in said direction.

Signed at New York, in the county of 9th day of October, A. D. 1925.

MICHAEL S. MASTRUKOFF.

